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clump
English
Etymology
From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb?- (“lump, clamp”).Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
clump (plural clumps)
- A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
- A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
- 1954, Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator), Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)
- clump of trees
- 1954, Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator), Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)
- A dull thud.
- The compressed clay of coal strata.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
- A small group of trees or plants.
- (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
Derived terms
- clumpy
Translations
- to be checked
Verb
clump (third-person singular simple present clumps, present participle clumping, simple past and past participle clumped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
- (transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
- (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
- (transitive, Britain, regional) To strike; to beat.
- 1912, Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, The Go-Between (page 79)
- There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!
- 1912, Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, The Go-Between (page 79)
Derived terms
- clump up
Translations
References
Further reading
- Clump in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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bundle
English
Etymology
From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bund? (“bundle”). Compare also English bindle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?nd(?)l/
- Hyphenation: bun?dle
- Rhymes: -?nd?l
Noun
bundle (plural bundles)
- A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
- 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, On National Concord
- The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.
- 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, On National Concord
- A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
- A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
- (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
- Synonyms: (informal) mint, (slang) pile, (colloquial) small fortune
- (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
- (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
- (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
- A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
- (law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
- (mathematics) Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
- Meronym: stalk space
Hyponyms
- (computing): native bundle
Coordinate terms
- (quantity of paper): bale, quire, ream
Derived terms
Descendants
- bindle
Translations
See also
- Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- bundle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
bundle (third-person singular simple present bundles, present participle bundling, simple past and past participle bundled)
- (transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
- (transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
- 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
- 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney
- (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
- (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
- (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
- (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
- (intransitive) To hurry.
- (slang) Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
- (transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 7
- Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 7
- (dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
- Van Corlear […] [stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
- They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.
Derived terms
Related terms
- bundle off
- bundle up
Translations
Anagrams
- unbled
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